@crouching_nun: "Talkback is a cloud of cretins this morning!
The Liberal Party phone trees must be running at full
capacity!
I have never heard a higher density of stupidity anywhere
before, including here.
Its well worth listening to for a bit of a grin."
    @toby: "On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:23 +1000, Crouching Nun, Hidden Cucumber
wrote:
<quote>
It's called 'unlimited budget'.
Love to see the accounting process for paying the shills:-)
It'd make Bonds shenanigans pale into insignificance.
Unless of course they use petty cash, which might be the go given the
quality of the efforts I hear. 
Toby
quidquid latine dictum
sit, altum viditur"
    @crouching_nun: "On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:10:15 +1000, Toby Ponsenby
<quote>
As they say, you get what you pay for.....
They must all be volunteers ;-)"
    @crouching_nun: "On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:49:05 GMT, "tom" <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
Not quite.There's a few folk around here whose views I dont
normally share and they are certainly not cretins by any
stretch of the imagination.
You on the other hand......."
    @newsgroup: "On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:23 +1000, "Crouching Nun, Hidden Cucumber"
<quote>
Alan Jones this morning on 2GB had a monumental whinge just after 7
o'clock that Mark Latham would not come on his program today.
Was rather entertaining hearing Jones complain about Latham's advisers
not returning calls :)
Latham doesn't need Jones. Why go on the program when the listeners
are predominantly right wing and have already made up their mind on
who to vote for. Plus Jones' bias is already well known.
It seems that Jones realises "his" government may be no longer very
soon.
JS"
    @rsilva: "On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:23 +1000, "Crouching Nun, Hidden Cucumber"
<quote>
I heard a few myself. You'd think that the parties would at least
suggest that callers mix it up a little so its not immediately obvious
that they're reading from a script (and I'm talking about both sides
here).
That's a big call. In fact I have to disagree because the talkback
programs have to pull the plug on the abusive and defamatory callers.
The scariest thought is that there are actually those in listener land
who are influenced by some of that crap."
    @crouching_nun: "On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:06:56 +0930, Rob Silva
<quote>
I'm waiting for when two twits ring up after each other and
recite the same page word for word.
I'm surprised it didnt happen this morning considering the
nature of the flock that was out and about on squawkback
B^D
True.Community country radio talkback where no-one pays
attention to the broadcasting rules and 8 second delays dont
exist (or work) may just have a higher density ;-)
Some believe it as Gospel.Its frightening.
And they vote."
    @db: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
I like to refer to them as the "sheeple".
"Sheeple" believe what they are told by their chosen announcer...ie John
Laws.And try to get him to admit he lied!!!!!!
They also only listen to main stream news media and have no idea what you
are talking about when you mention alternative news media.
I was listening to a Bribane journo this morning talking about politician
Ivan Molloy. Molloy is also a political lecturer. The journo said that the
worry was that these lecturers were teaching these young people the views
that they hold and finished with..." which is not our views".
My question is who is the "our" he was referring to.
Diana
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    @geracen: ""Freddy" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:<email_address>
<quote>
Perhaps just balancing up the ABC, then. "
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